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New York Times:
Jeb Bush Allies Threaten Wave of Harsh Attacks on Marco Rubio, an Ex-Mentee — The cash-rich group aiding Jeb Bush's White House run has filmed a provocative video casting his rival Marco Rubio as ultimately unelectable because of his hard-line stand against abortion.
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The Hill:
Clinton, allies set sights on newly surging Rubio — Clinton World is stepping up its attacks on Sen. Marco Rubio, signaling the Democratic presidential front-runner sees the rising Florida Republican as a significant threat. — Priorities USA, a super-PAC aligned with Hillary Clinton …
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Republicans Wrangle in Wisconsin — NOTABLES —WHY SCOTT WALKER IS GRABBING THE SPOTLIGHT BEFORE TUESDAY'S DEBATE: He may not be on stage for the Republican debate tonight, but that doesn't mean that Scott Walker won't be getting attention. The Wisconsin governor …
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Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush's Comeback Plan Looks Weaker Than Advertised — Though the Republican presidential candidate's team says they're focused on March contests, there are few signs of enthusiasm in those states. — michaelcbender — As Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush's poll numbers dropped …
John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Bush, Carson Under Pressure Ahead of Critical Fourth Debate
Bush, Carson Under Pressure Ahead of Critical Fourth Debate
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Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
For GOP Candidates, the Best Bet Is for Instability
For GOP Candidates, the Best Bet Is for Instability
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The American Conservative
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Meet The Mizzou Media Professor Who's Trying To Ban Media Coverage — After desperately trying to gin up media coverage of student protests at the University of Missouri, one of the school's media professors is now furiously trying to “muscle” the press off campus to prevent …
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Columbia Daily Tribune:
Deans, faculty members call for Loftin's dismissal — The same day University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe announced his resignation, the deans of nine different MU colleges requested the dismissal of Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin. — In a letter sent Monday to Wolfe and the UM Board of Curators …
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Adrienne Green / The Atlantic:
The Financial Calculations: Why Tim Wolfe Had to Resign — The University of Missouri's president Tim Wolfe has resigned after months of protest from students, faculty, and community members over the administration's handling of recent instances of racism targeted at black students.
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New York Times:
As Missouri Activists Block Journalists, a Divide Over ‘Respect’ and Rights
As Missouri Activists Block Journalists, a Divide Over ‘Respect’ and Rights
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New York Times:
University of Missouri Protests Spur a Day of Change
University of Missouri Protests Spur a Day of Change
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Advancing Missouri:
UM System President Wolfe resigns, MU Chancellor transitions to new role; UM Board of Curators …
UM System President Wolfe resigns, MU Chancellor transitions to new role; UM Board of Curators …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
How the Missouri football team just took down its university president
How the Missouri football team just took down its university president
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Appeals court keeps block on Obama immigration actions — A federal appeals court has rejected President Barack Obama's effort to move forward with a series of executive actions he announced last year seeking to give quasi-legal status and work permits to millions of undocumented immigrants.
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Kevin McGill / Associated Press:
Appeals court rules against Obama immigration plan — NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Barack Obama's plan to protect from deportation an estimated 5 million people living in the United States illegally suffered another setback Monday in a ruling from a New Orleans-based federal appeals court.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Yale Classmate: We Did The Prank Test That Ben Carson's Talking About — A former staff member of the Yale Record says that he recalls many of the details of a prank that Dr. Ben Carson wrote about in an autobiography. — The incident has been the subject of media coverage in recent days …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Reid rips Grassley over Clinton-Abedin probe — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is demanding that Sen. Chuck Grassley drop his hold on dozens of State Department nominations, arguing the Iowa Republican is wasting money to try to bring down Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
FBI steps up interviews in Clinton email probe
FBI steps up interviews in Clinton email probe
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The Huffington Post:
Jeb Bush On Whether He'd Kill Baby Hitler: ‘Hell Yeah, I Would!’ — “You gotta step up, man.”
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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Donald Trump: ‘Maybe we should boycott Starbucks’ — “If I become president, we're all going to be saying Merry Christmas again, I can tell you,” Trump told a crowd in Springfield, Illinois — Washington (CNN)Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump weighed in on the day's controversy on Monday …
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Even as House Speaker, Paul Ryan Makes His Office a Home — WASHINGTON — The speaker has no house. — Of all his unusual traits for his new role — relative youth, a love of Clif bars for lunch and an excessive interest in tax policy — the most notable may be Speaker Paul D. Ryan's insistence …
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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Cuban Peers Dispute Ted Cruz's Father's Story of Fighting for Castro — MATANZAS, Cuba — Since he was a boy, Senator Ted Cruz has said, all he wanted to do was “fight for liberty” — a yearning that he says was first kindled when he heard his father's tales of fighting as a rebel leader …
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Kimberly Hefling / Politico:
Hillary Clinton rebukes charter schools — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sounded less like a decades-long supporter of charter schools over the weekend and more like a teachers union president when she argued that most of these schools “don't take the hardest-to-teach kids, or, if they do, they don't keep them.”
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Ben Carson's Roman fixation — Ben Carson doesn't have a detailed foreign policy platform, but he does have a clear worldview: the evangelical precept that the greatest danger facing America is moral and spiritual decline at home — a decline he often compares to a Roman Empire collapsing under …
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Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Republican Candidates Push Bold Tax Plans — Proposed changes go well beyond the party's previous platforms and ensure the issue will play a central role in the general election — Republican presidential candidates are competing to propose dramatic changes to tax policy that go well beyond …
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Sen. Tom Cotton: Social Security benefits cause people to ‘spiral downward’ into heroin addiction — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) suggested on Monday that population decline and drug abuse in poor areas could be the result of too many people on Social Security disability.
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